Month: November 2005

Welcome to Week Three of Comixpedia’s November 2005 Issue!

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This month, Comixpedia looked at MYSTERY WEBCOMICS!

Our final feature for November, Faith in Science: Detective Stories In A Confused World by T Campbell, is a close examination of the rules of mystery comics and a challenge to webcomics creators.

“Nemesis in Noir” is Al Schroeder’s interview with Greg Holkan of [nemesis] and Gossamer Commons.

We have TWO reviews this week:

One is a REview of Femme Noir by John Lynch. (Comixpedia first reviewed Christopher Mill’s webcomic Femme Noir in October 2003.)

The other is Xaviar Xerexes’ review of Will Eisner’s John Law by Gary Chaloner.

And last, but never least, is Ping Teo’s gentle poke at The Essence of… Whodunnit.

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Faith in Science: Detective Stories In A Confused World

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The game is afoot.

    — Sherlock Holmes

There’s just one more question I’d like to ask you.

    — Columbo

And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those nosy kids and their mangy dog!

    — innumerable Scooby-Doo villains

Forget about making a hundred, forget about the victim, forget about the suspect and focus on the only thing that can’t lie: the evidence.

    — Gil Grissom, CSI

O photoprocessing machine, I command you to reveal to me that which is hidden!

Like most good ideas, mysteries and detective stories have many ancestors, but they didn’t really get to take a place in entertainment until the Industrial Revolution. It’s not hard to see why. The underlying message behind the traditional mystery—and the traditional detective story, its most famous subgenre—is always the same. That message: our world may seem confusing, but patience, pluck, and especially reason can lay its secrets bare, punish the guilty, and reveal the monsters as aged men in latex or clockwork springs. Continue Reading →

Nemesis in Noir: An Interview with Greg Holkan

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[nemesis] is the story of a very normal police detective in a world of super-powered defenders assigned to solve the murder of their world's greatest hero. Equal parts super-hero parody and noir detective story, it is quite unique on the web. Its creator, Greg Holkan, also joined Eric Burns in the fantasy webcomic Gossamer Commons and although he's letting go of the artistic reins, he retains input into the plotting. Holkan is an interesting mystery himself to unravel, and this interview gives the clues needed.

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Will Eisner’s John Law by Gary Chaloner, Reviewed by Xaviar Xerexes

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NOTE: This is a parallel review in which we have two reviewers looking at the same comic. The other review is by Andrew Leal.

John Law is a character, originally created by Will Eisner in the 1940s, whom he ultimately did not actually publish. Instead he repurposed the work he did for this character into stories for his more well-known comic, The Spirit. Despite some claims to the contrary, the full-fledged character of John Law only appeared in print when Eclipse Comics published a one-shot book in 1983 titled John Law, Detective #1. Continue Reading →

Seven Seas to publish Chugworth Academy, Earthsong and Inverloch

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Publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that they will be publishing the webcomics Chugworth Academy Earthsong and Inverloch in print.

Seven Seas appears to be a pretty young publisher aimed at mangaesque titles. They also seem fairly online savvy with both webcomics featured on their site and free psp downloads of some of their titles. Continue Reading →